How to Use astronomer in a Sentence

astronomer

noun

• Join astronomer Dean Regas to view the closest full moon of the year, weather permitting.
  — Luann Gibbs, The Enquirer, 13 Oct. 2024
• One Brazilian astronomer noted that the object was orbiting Earth, not the sun.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 15 Feb. 2022
• Daryl Hannah, then 26, was offered the part of Roxanne Kowalski, a beautiful astronomer who comes to town in search of a passing comet.
  — Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Jan. 2022
• Mimas was first discovered in 1789 by English astronomer William Herschel as a tiny dot near Saturn.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Jan. 2022
• Many of the astronomers who observed it then are not alive now.
  — Tiffany Acosta, The Arizona Republic, 30 May 2024
• Smith was the second astronomer hired on the project by John Mather in 1996.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2023
• In the 1920s astronomer Jacobus Kapteyn took this a step further.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2023
• Now, one astronomer by the name of Avi Loeb seems to think that this meteorite could have been alien tech.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 1 Sep. 2022
• In years past, many astronomers thought of the solar wind as a steady flow, streaming away from the sun at a constant rate.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 24 Aug. 2023
• So why not celebrate the Mayan astronomers who found Venus?
  — Noé López, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2023
• Many more baby black holes await the attention of the telescope and its astronomers.
  — WIRED, 5 Nov. 2023
• This was the true origin of the magnitude scale, which astronomers still use today.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 28 July 2023
• But over the past several years, a team of astronomers has begun to rewrite the ballet of stars.
  — Zack Savitsky, Scientific American, 3 Jan. 2024
• But just think of it: an amateur astronomer watching the Moon cover the Sun from a place named Mars Hill?
  — Michael E. Bakich, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2024
• Sara Seager, an astronomer from MIT, proposed the idea.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 2 Mar. 2022
• About 1,000 light-years away, a vast disk of gas and dust is offering astronomers a peek at how planets are born.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2024
• That makes astronomers’ conclusion that the Milky Way has four arms, something of a surprise.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
• For decades astronomers have wondered how the cosmos grew and took shape and what its ultimate fate will be.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 30 June 2023
• Which is why astronomers are so excited about the James Webb Space Telescope.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 25 July 2024
• The first recorded sighting of a Lyrid meteor show, dates back to 687 BC by the Chinese, astronomers say.
  — USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2024
• That provided a map of the magnetic field, according to an astronomer who led the study.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 31 Oct. 2023
• In no other field do men confront mystery and challenge like that which looms down upon the astronomer in the long watches of the night.
  — Merrie Monteagudo, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2023
• Comet Nishimura was first spotted in Japan by a novice astronomer in mid-August, which is why the comet was named after him.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 7 Sep. 2023
• Physicist, author and Harvard astronomer, Avi Loeb, thinks Oumuamua could be a piece of alien tech rather than a space rock.
  — Andrea Morris, Forbes, 5 May 2022
• Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was the first person to predict that a transit of Venus would occur.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 4 June 2022
• That could enable astronomers to start using FRBs as a mapping tool.
  — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 31 Mar. 2023
• Since then, astronomers have identified more events like this.
  — Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
• But what astronomers still don’t understand is why things have been calm ever since.
  — WIRED, 12 Nov. 2023
• While astronomers know of 40 to 50 in-sync solar systems, none have as many planets in such perfect step or as bright a star as this one, Palle said.
  — CBS News, 30 Nov. 2023
• Check out the epic star gazing, where an expert astronomer will guide your family through the universe with a high-powered telescope.
  — Karen Cicero, Parents, 8 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024